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matt123456789 commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

keeda · 14 days ago

I feel like your expectations have been swayed by the average sentiment of HN on the capabilities of LLMs. These things can be shockingly good at humour and satire.

As a very quick experiment, I would encourage you to have an AI roast you based on your HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857604

matt123456789 · 14 days ago

Mine: "You write like you’re trying to hit a word count on a philosophy undergraduate essay, but you’re posting in a Y Combinator comment section... You sound like a Victorian ghost haunting a server room, lamenting the loss of the card catalog."

And

"Go compile your kernel, Matt. Maybe if you stare at the build logs long enough, you won't have to face the fact that you're just as much of a "Lego builder" as the rest of us—you just use more syllables to describe the bricks."

Both are pretty good!

matt123456789 commented on A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-... · Posted by u/vedmed

mh- · a month ago

I was merely pretty sure that the comment was AI generated as I read it. After reading it, I became a lot more confident when I noticed the username above the comment: Gemini 3.

Is this a Wordpress plugin the blog author is using?

matt123456789 · a month ago

I think it was someone trying to help and being cheeky about it.

matt123456789 commented on 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark dataengineeringcentral.su... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

garganzol · a month ago

DuckLake format has an unresolved built-in chicken and egg conflict: it requires SQL database to represent its catalog. But this is what some people are running away from when they choose Parquet format in the first place. Parquet = easy, SQL = hard, adding SQL to Parquet makes the resulting format hard. I would expect a catalog to be in Parquet format as well, then it becomes something self-bootstrapping and usable.

matt123456789 · a month ago

It is not a chicken and egg problem, it is just a requirement to have an RDBMS available for systems like DuckLake and Hive to store their catalogs in. Metadata is relatively small and needs to provide ACID r/w => great RDBMS use case.

matt123456789 commented on When if is just a function ryelang.org/blog/posts/if... · Posted by u/soheilpro

correct_horse · 2 months ago

Just here to point out that the actor’s name is Bob Odenkirk not Odendirk. In a statically typed language this would be an error at compile time not hacker news comment time.

matt123456789 · 2 months ago

gcc() { curl -d '{"title": "Does this code look right?", "body": "$(cat $1)"' https://$HN_BASE/api/ask }

export gcc

matt123456789 commented on Thrashing exple.tive.org/blarg/2025... · Posted by u/pch00

matt123456789 · 4 months ago

Write a book

Edit: sorry for the low-effort comment. Write a book, please. I’ll buy it. I might even read it!

matt123456789 commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt

matt123456789 · 4 months ago

When I put real time and thought into an email—and the response I get back is obviously AI-generated—and it comes with no disclaimer—it infuriates me. Maybe the model happened to spit out exactly what the sender meant—just dressed up and grammatically polished. Doesn’t matter—I’d rather someone talk to me directly than funnel a thought through a word-grinder and hit send. Downvote me—call me anti-progress—I don’t care. I cannot stand undisclosed AI in conversation.

matt123456789 commented on C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML reachablecode.com/2025/07... · Posted by u/ibobev

matt123456789 · 5 months ago

Whenever I start to feel like a real programmer making games and webapps and AI-enhanced ETL pipelines, I inevitably come across the blog post of a C++ expert and reminded that I am basically playing with legos and play-doh.

matt123456789 commented on Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/spenvo

jon-wood · 5 months ago

While I agree with you on most points, security is never the number one priority. If it were we'd all destroy our computers, never write anything down, and simply accept the collapse of society. Security is always weighed against many other priorities such as authorised users being able to access data, and ease of use. A unique 128 character password for each document would have high security, but be widely considered unacceptable even in a system handling classified material.

matt123456789 · 5 months ago

"Sorry, you can’t use that password to encrypt this email. It’s already being used on NUCLEAR_CODES_2 (final) (2).docx. Please try another password."

matt123456789 commented on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 twitter.com/alexwei_/stat... · Posted by u/Davidzheng

shiandow · 5 months ago

I read through P1, and it seemed to be correct. Though you could explain the central idea of the proof into about 3 sentences and a few drawings.

It reads like someone who found the correct answer but seemingly had no understanding of what they did and just handed in the draft paper.

Which seems odd, shouldn't an LLM be better at prose?

matt123456789 · 5 months ago

One would think. I suppose OpenAI threw the majority of their compute budget at producing and verifying solutions. It would certainly be interesting to see whether or not this new model can distill its responses to just those steps necessary to convey its result to a given audience.

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